Monday, 13 December 2010

Two weeks passed since the first official Synapse release, and we've prepared another one! As common with first releases, there were quite a few issues which we worked on and fixed in 0.2.2. But besides fixed bugs we also added a bunch of stuff... So what's new?

implemented relevancy service, which makes sure that applications you use often end up among the first results of a search - this is done using Zeitgeist, so you can also track the popularity also in other Zeitgeist clients

support for basic transliteration when searching for applications - therefore you shouldn't need to type accents (if your language has them)

We also set up a wiki @ http://synapse.zeitgeist-project.com/wiki/, feel free to head over there to learn about advanced/hidden configuration options and hopefully soon there'll be even some content on plugin creation.

You can find the release tarball of Adenosine triphosphate here: http://launchpad.net/synapse-project/0.2/0.2.2/+download/synapse-0.2.2.2.tar.gz (you'll need valac 0.10 to compile it, and zeitgeist 0.6 is highly recommended to run it), Ubuntu users will find an update in ppa:synapse-core/ppa. (please note that the maverick package says that it's 0.2.1, but it's in fact 0.2.2, sorry about that).

What's next? By now we're pretty happy with the core functionality (except maybe the missing ability to configure plugins using some kind of UI), so further releases will see this fixed, and besides that there'll be mostly new and updated plugins.